one clearly was a defender of the obama administration. et, all four of the witnesses, brilliant constitutional scholars, even though we have our disagreements, these are brilliant people and every one of them had the same rein -- same answer for harry reid's question. the answer is, the united states constitution, article 1, section 8. it gave congress control of the purse strings and it gave the house a little more control than the senate. the senate has got to go along with whatever legislation is going to become law, but he asked the question, i put it to our experts. suppose you were in a town hall meeting with constituents back in a congressional district and an elementary schoolchild asked the question, what right does the house of representatives have to decide which government programs get funded and which o not, and they unhesitatingly said, the answer is, our constitutional, article 1, section 8. they all agreed. they all knew immediately. so i've asked that the chairman of the judiciary committee make that testimony available t